324 INDEX. 



Moorhouse, Mr., on peewits beating the ground, 28 

 Morren on worms surviving long immersion, 13 



on worms lying motionless near mouths of their 



burrows, 15 



on worms eating sugar, 37 



on the disappearance of the calciferous glands 



during winter, 50 



on stones in the gizzards of worms, 250, 252 



Mould, thickness of, annually ejected by worms, 171 



thickness of, over Roman remains at Ched worth, 



201 

 nature and thickness of, over the Roman remains 



at Silchester, 220 



thickness of, at Wroxeter, 225 



■ formation and thickness of, over the chalk, 300 



Mountains, worms absent from, 12 



Miiller, Fritz, on the worms in South Brazil, 124 



Nice, castings near, 108 



disintegrated castings near, 279 



Night, worms leave their burrows at, 14 

 Nilgiri Mountains, castings on, 128 



Objects strewed on the surface soon buried under cast- 

 ings, 132 

 Obliteration of old furrows on ploughed land, 295 

 Odours, degree of sensitiveness to, by worms, 30 



Pancreatic secretion, 38 



not acid, 54 



Paper, triangles of, 85 



Parfitt, Mr., on the closing of the mouths of burrows, 65 



Path, paved, burial of, by worm-castings, 147 



Paths inhabited by worms, 10 



Pavement, modern, undermined by worms, 194 



Pavements, ancient, subsidence of, at Silchester, 214 



